page_title: Jean Ducamps
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Jean Ducamps / Life
caption_attribution_description: Español: San Jerónimo, óleo sobre lienzo, 131 x 96 cm, Musée de Cambrai. Atribuido a Jean Ducamps, llamado Giovanni di Filippo del Campo
context_page_description: Jean Ducamps, Giovanni di Filippo del Campo or Giovanni del Campo, was a Flemish Baroque painter who spent most of his career in Italy where he enjoyed notoriety for his religious compositions, genre scenes and allegories. He worked in a style that was influenced by Caravaggio and is counted amongst the Northern Caravaggisti.
context_section_description: His first biographer Joachim von Sandrart stated that Ducamps learned to paint from Abraham Janssens in Antwerp.  He travelled to Rome where he became a follower of Caravaggio.  There are different views about the length of his stay in Rome.  The following dates have been proposed: from 1622 to 1641, from 1626 to 1638 and from 1622 to 1637 (also to the end of 1636).
  He was in Rome actively involved in the creation of the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. He took in the Bentvueghels the nickname 'Braef ', 'Braeff' or 'Brave' (meaning the good or brave one). He was a spokesman and advocate of the Bentvueghels on various occasions and handled disagreements and disputes with local agencies. He acted in a dispute with the Academy of St Luke, the local association of artists in Rome, which had the right to determine who could call himself an artist in Rome.
  He lived in 1622 in Rome with the painter Thomas Cortiels in a house of the family Altoviti from Florence.  There are various reports on the people he live with in the Strada Margutta in Rome in the period from 1623 to 1628.  The persons who have been mentioned include Tomaso Fiamengo (a painter), Tomaso Cotiemps, Ghiongrat, Belthasar, Antionio Fiamengo (a painter), Natale (a French servant), Gasparo Fiamengo (a painter), Novello Fabap (a servant?), Antonio Colina (a painter), Tomaso Cortielz and Gaspar Taunz. Some sources state that from 1626 to 1638 he shared a residence in the Via Margutta with Pieter van Laer. Pieter van Laer was an influential Dutch painter and printmaker.  He was active in Rome for over a decade and was known mainly for his genre scenes depicting common people of Rome in their surroundings, which were so influential that they gave rise to a genre of painting referred to as Bambocciata. Ducamps may also have shared that residence with Gerard van der Kuijl and, possibly, Alexander van Wevelinckhoven.  
  On 8 July 1631 Ducamps and his friend Jacomo Cabrijol (Capriola) were involved in a drunken brawl in which they attacked the painters Marcus Wouters and Hendrik van Houten. The legal complications arising from the brawl dragged on until 1 August. Joachim von Sandrart cites financial hardship as the reason why Ducamps finally left Rome.  He travelled to Madrid around 1637 and 1638 in the company of the Manuel de Moura Corte Real, 2nd Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo, ambassador to Rome of Philip IV of Spain.  In Madrid he is said to have obtained commissions from the Spanish king Philip IV as well as have worked for his compatriots from Flanders who had established themselves in Spain such as Philippe François, 1st Duke of Arenberg.
  It is not clear when he died as all trace of him is lost in Spain.
caption: St Jerome
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